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This thread has five new predictions for the next ten years up through January 1st, 2036. I will incorporate these and others into my yearly prediction update on January 1st, 2026. rodneybrooks.com/predictions-...
Predictions Scorecard, 2025 January 01 – Rodney Brooks
rodneybrooks.com
March 26, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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The migration of Python tooling to Rust stuff is making speedups I didn't know were possible. Already aliased `pip-compile` to `uv pip compile` and can't go back now.
GitHub - astral-sh/uv: An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust.
An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust. - astral-sh/uv
github.com
November 25, 2024 at 3:18 AM
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But when it comes to maintenance it’s really insane how much more productive we’re in rust. We’re never afraid to break anything and have done multiple 10k+loc rewrite of some part of the engine that would be such a pain in C/C++.
Our senior wrote on that: blog.dureuill.net/articles/too...
Too dangerous for C++
Some patterns are only made practical thanks to Rust's memory safety, and too dangerous to use in C++. Here's a concrete example.
blog.dureuill.net
November 22, 2024 at 8:40 AM
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Bookmarks aren't a thing here yet due to the completely open nature of all the data stored here, but now there's a kinda janky but pretty neat solution...

1) Subscribe to @bookmarks.bluecanary.dev
2) Report post to the Bookmarks labeller (report again to remove)
3) View posts at Bookmarked Posts
November 14, 2024 at 5:36 AM
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As developers, we spend lots of time in the terminal. I asked Perplexity.ai to create me a page that lists some useful keyboard shortcuts.

www.perplexity.ai/page/termina...
Terminal Prompt Editing Shortcuts
Terminal prompt editing keyboard shortcuts are essential tools for efficient command-line navigation and manipulation, allowing users to quickly move the...
www.perplexity.ai
November 15, 2024 at 6:33 AM
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Bluesky now has over 20M people!! 🎉

We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:
November 19, 2024 at 6:51 PM
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Since I've been here for a while… here are some useful features on Bluesky that you might not have discovered yet! 🧵
November 20, 2024 at 7:52 PM
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Starting to see the first serious economic analysis attempts to grapple with what AGI might mean. I appreciate that this piece embraces scenarios, we don’t know if or when AGI might happen.

But wow that wages graph is something else. www.imf.org/en/Publicati...
November 22, 2024 at 1:29 AM